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* RealityEnsues:
** Putting your faith in profoundly drug-addicted person isn't likely to have the results you're looking for.
** Defense may be less flashy than offense, but it has the benefit of keeping you, you know, ''alive''.
** Putting your faith in profoundly drug-addicted person isn't likely to have the results you're looking for.
** Defense may be less flashy than offense, but it has the benefit of keeping you, you know, ''alive''.
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* WrongGenreSavvy:
** Putting your faith in profoundly drug-addicted person isn't likely to have the results you're looking for.
** Defense may be less flashy than offense, but it has the benefit of keeping you, you know, ''alive''.
** Putting your faith in profoundly drug-addicted person isn't likely to have the results you're looking for.
** Defense may be less flashy than offense, but it has the benefit of keeping you, you know, ''alive''.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Welcome to ''Wild Cards''!
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** Defense beats offense.
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** Defense beats offense.may be less flashy than offense, but it has the benefit of keeping you, you know, ''alive''.
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* {{Intangibility}: The killer, [[spoiler:that is, Fallon]] gained this power.
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* {{Intangibility}: {{Intangibility}}: The killer, [[spoiler:that is, Fallon]] gained this power.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: A non-magical version. Jetboy's jacket, used by Kira as a prop in her science fair project, had dormant samples of Wild Card virus on it.
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* BrokenAce: A literal case with the Sleeper. The Sleeper is an Ace some of the time, a Joker other times, and things in-between whenever he goes to sleep. That's why he insists on trying to stay up as long as possible.
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* BrokenAce: A literal case with the Sleeper. The Sleeper is an Ace some of the time, a Joker other times, and things in-between whenever he goes to sleep. Every time he sleeps there's a chance he'll die or turn into a non-viable Joker form. That's why he insists on trying to stay up as long as possible.possible, resorting to drugs if necessary.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his school. When he wants to get rid of his electricity-based superpowers by taking the Trump, he's considered insane for this as it could potentially kill him.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his school. They also have nasty downsides like not being able to touch electrical items without overloading and destroying them. When he wants to get rid of his electricity-based superpowers by taking the Trump, he's considered insane for this as it could potentially kill him.
* {{Intangibility}: The killer, [[spoiler:that is, Fallon]] gained this power.
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* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Fallon goes from encouraging Jokers to take the Trump despite the possibility of killing them to outright engaging in terrorist attacks with it, killing dozens of Jokers..]]
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* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Fallon goes from encouraging Jokers to take the Trump despite the possibility of killing them to outright engaging in terrorist attacks with it, killing dozens of Jokers..Jokers.]]
* LogicalWeakness: Alex's powers make him short out anything electrical he tries to use, and his attempt to use a landline phone is drowned out by interference. This might go away with practice.
* RealityEnsues:
** Putting your faith in profoundly drug-addicted person isn't likely to have the results you're looking for.
** Defense beats offense.
** Putting your faith in profoundly drug-addicted person isn't likely to have the results you're looking for.
** Defense beats offense.
* ShockAndAwe: Alex gains the ability to project red lightning.
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* {{Teleportation}}: Simon gains the power to teleport from one mirror to another.
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[[caption-width-right:350: His superpowers are awesome if you're a creepy perv.]]
[[caption-width-right:350: His superpowers are awesome if you're a creepy perv.]]
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* BoomerrangBigot: Combined with FreudianExcuse. The BigBad [[spoiler: Fallon]] was a former Joker who took the Trump and was cured of his condition, so he now wants to share it with all other Jokers.
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* BoomerrangBigot: BoomerangBigot: Combined with FreudianExcuse. The BigBad [[spoiler: Fallon]] was a former Joker who took the Trump and was cured of his condition, so he now wants to share it with all other Jokers.
* BrokenAesop: The "cured" Jokers who survive the release of Trump are ecstatic about it and have no regrets about the life they're leaving behind. The dead ones, of course, have no opinion.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: Fallon's]] desire to "cure" his fellow Jokers is something which can easily be read as an allegory to some gays attempt to force others into conversion therapy.
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* FridgeHorror: How exactly would Kira and Alex become intimate?
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* BrokenAce: A literal case with the Sleeper.
* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his school.
* FantasticRacism: Only a minor feature of this story.
* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his school.
* FantasticRacism: Only a minor feature of this story.
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* BoomerrangBigot: Combined with FreudianExcuse. The BigBad [[spoiler: Fallon]] was a former Joker who took the Trump and was cured of his condition, so he now wants to share it with all other Jokers.
* BrokenAce: A literal case with the
* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his
* FantasticRacism:
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* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
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* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Fallon.[[spoiler:Fallon goes from encouraging Jokers to take the Trump despite the possibility of killing them to outright engaging in terrorist attacks with it, killing dozens of Jokers..]]
* KnightTemplar:[[spoiler:Fallon.[[spoiler:Fallon believes life as a Joker is worse than potential death taking the cure.]]
* KnightTemplar:
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* SociopathicHero: Simon.
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* SociopathicHero: Simon.Simon doesn't care about the fact the people in his high school were all killed by the Wild Card outbreak and is ectastic about his new superpowers. [[spoiler: He gets killed in the book soon after.]]
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Author Daniel Abraham penned a 2008 six-issue ''Literature/WildCards'' comics limited series, published by Dabel Brothers Productions. The first issue of the series was issued simultaneously with two variant covers, and the sixth and final issue was later published by Dynamic Comics. Dynamic then collected the miniseries as a single hardcover graphic novel in early 2011; this second series was called ''GeorgeRRMartin's Wild Cards: The Hard Call''.
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Author Daniel Abraham penned a 2008 six-issue ''Literature/WildCards'' comics limited series, published by Dabel Brothers Productions. The first issue of the series was issued simultaneously with two variant covers, and the sixth and final issue was later published by Dynamic Comics. Dynamic then collected the miniseries as a single hardcover graphic novel in early 2011; this second series was called ''GeorgeRRMartin's ''Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's Wild Cards: The Hard Call''.
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Author Daniel Abraham penned a 2008 six-issue ''Literature/WildCards'' comics limited series, published by Dabel Brothers Productions. The first issue of the series was issued simultaneously with two variant covers, and the sixth and final issue was later published by Dynamic Comics. Dynamic then collected the miniseries as a single hardcover graphic novel in early 2011; this second series was called ''GeorgeRRMartin's Wild Cards: The Hard Call''.
It is an original story and not an adaptation of any of the short stories.
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!!This story contains the following tropes:
* BrokenAce: A literal case with the Sleeper.
* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his school.
* FantasticRacism: Only a minor feature of this story.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Kira's act of sprouting wings indicates she was becoming a butterfly.]]
* FridgeHorror: How exactly would Kira and Alex become intimate?
* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
* LostAesop: The story is about Jokers and whether it's worth it to transform back into a human being with the sometimes lethal Trump virus. What it's trying to say about beauty, society, and medical risks is unclear.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Simon.]]
* SociopathicHero: Simon.
** The Sleeper himself, to a lesser extent.
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It is an original story and not an adaptation of any of the short stories.
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!!This story contains the following tropes:
* BrokenAce: A literal case with the Sleeper.
* CursedWithAwesome: Deconstructed. Alex has superpowers but they came at the cost of his brother's life and the life of almost everyone else at his school.
* FantasticRacism: Only a minor feature of this story.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Kira's act of sprouting wings indicates she was becoming a butterfly.]]
* FridgeHorror: How exactly would Kira and Alex become intimate?
* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Fallon.]]
* LostAesop: The story is about Jokers and whether it's worth it to transform back into a human being with the sometimes lethal Trump virus. What it's trying to say about beauty, society, and medical risks is unclear.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Simon.]]
* SociopathicHero: Simon.
** The Sleeper himself, to a lesser extent.
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